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It’s Neewww
Suuuper-Maan week! It’s Neewww
Suuuper-Maan weeeeek! Boy, when this comic comes out, everything is just a
little brighter. Of course, it helps if you read this before Dark Days: The Casting, because that
book is creepy as hell. But not New
Super-Man! Let’s dive into my review of issue #13 and wallow in the viscous
sludge of a good comic book. Maybe “viscous sludge” wasn’t the best phrase to
describe something pleasant, but you get the idea.

Explain
It!

Now that Dr. Omen’s said she is Kenan’s mother, he
feels compelled to save her from falling to her death, despite the fact that
she’s been a total bitch to him. Before he can grab her hand, Super-Man
Zero—now wearing an awesome ancient Chinese warrior’s outfit and calling
himself the Emperor—snatches her away and tells Kenan to buzz off. He’s so
dejected and panicked that he falls out of the sky and begins to lose his
invulnerability. Not his chutzpah, though, as Kenan demands that the Emperor
let Dr. Omen go. The Emperor responds by using his super breath to freeze Kenan
on the spot and take off. Avery uses super speed to chip Kenan out of the ice,
and now that he’s free Kenan wants to check in on the spot Baixi showed him in
a video last issue, of his supposedly dead father being kept alive in a big vat
at the Loess Plateau, against I-Ching’s suggestion. Kenan zips over there, and
Avery picks up I-Ching and follows, to find that the vat once containing his
dad is broken open, and there’s no dad nearby. Avery tells Kenan to stop
dicking around with this mishegoss and get to saving Shanghai from the Emperor
like a good member of the Justice League of China should—and that’s when Kenan
snaps out, his eyes go white, and he punches the broken tank in anger. I dunno
what exactly happened there, but I-Ching defuses it by touching Kenan’s
forehead and going back to that Quiet Place.

In that Place, I-Ching breaks down Kenan’s selfish
anger, and advises that he get the Justice League of China together and do his
damned job. At that same moment, in the Fortress of Sovereignty (formerly the
Shanghai Tower) the Emperor tells Dr. Omen to free all the supervillain
prisoners in the underwater Crab Shell Dungeon facility, and even Ghost I-Ching
shows up to advise Dr. Omen to do so, or they will kill her husband. He gets
wheeled out in a transparent cube partly filled with a green liquid, I guess
this negates his powers? The Emperor starts to boil this liquid, and threatens
to boil Zhongdan alive if Dr. Omen doesn’t do as she’s been asked. She
pensively considers the situation.

And for some great, nicely-paced storytelling, the
next page reveals the supervillains emerging from the sea, wrecking shop. No
hemming and hawing, no extended scenes of Dr. Omen mulling things over while
her husband slowly dies. Off-panel, she frees the prisoners and saves her
husband, and that’s that. And by the way, these supervillains? Amazing. I must
collect them all. I am fully prepared to see the Rogues of China start
operating. The Legion of Doom of China? Sure. There’s a Chinese version of
Bane, a Chinese version of Poison Ivy—and a bunch of villains that don’t seem
to be direct analogues of American criminals that are equally or more awesome.
Whatever you have to do: cartoons, action figures, Funko Pop toys…I want to see
more of these characters. The Bane of China is actually Rongpei, Baixi’s
nemesis from the Academy of the Bat, who discovered some Venom is now calls
himself Anathema. He even tries to break Baixi’s back, but he’s thwarted by
Kenan Kong, who now wants to be a team player. He used Robinbot to track Baixi
down, and now it’s time to round up Deilan and get the whole Justice League of
China together to fight the Emperor and every-fucking-supervillain on the Asian
continent! Yeah!

Holy moley, did I have a great time reading this! So
much intrigue, so much action, terrific plotting and storytelling…this is a
great comic book! I wish I had more to say, but it’s a lot easier to pick
something apart than to praise it. I wonder if that’s a deficiency of the
English language? Well then, every red envelope, every double happiness knot,
all the Mo Mo dumplings for this book! If you’re not reading it, you are surely
missing out!

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Pieces:

I don't know what more I can say. This is the best comic book currently being put out by DC Comics. If you're not reading it, then you should start. Volume one of the trade came out a few weeks ago, that's a good place to start. Because if you jump in on this issue, you're just going to wish you'd read the earlier comics anyway.

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